Has this advertising had an impact? If we compile all the individual ratings across all the national polls into HuffPost Pollster trend charts, the recent changes appear to be glacial at best.

For Romney, the chart shows a significant increase in his unfavorable rating during the Republican primary campaign, but since April that rating has remained mostly unchanged. His favorable rating did jump significantly in March and April as he became the presumptive nominee of the Republican Party. Analyses by individual pollsters concluded that most of that gain came from Republicans.

For Obama, the trend lines have moved even less, with his positive and negative ratings remaining mostly flat throughout 2012. The HuffPost Pollster chart does indicate a roughly one-point drop in Obama’s favorable rating and a roughly one-point increase in his unfavorable rating over the past month.

I thought his Bain attacks on Romney would end up driving Obama’s numbers down, but either I gave him too much credit for likability or not enough. Barring something extraordinary happening, it looks like his popularity isn’t going to move much from now until November. What does that mean for Mitt’s ad strategy going forward?

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So let me just say to all of you, in addition to thanks, we’ve got a little over a hundred days left. In that campaign in 2008, we went through a lot of ups and downs, and I tried to not make promises that I couldn’t keep. So I promised I’d end the war in Iraq — I ended it. I promised, we’d cut taxes for middle-class families — we did.

But the biggest promise I made, I said, I’m not a perfect man — Michelle can tell you that — (laughter) — and I won’t be a perfect President. But what I can promise you is that I will always tell you what I think, I’ll always tell you where I stand, and I will spend every single day fighting as hard as I know how for you. And I have kept that promise. (Applause.) I have kept that promise because I believe in you. And in you I see my own story. In your grandparents I see my grandparents. In your children I see Malia and Sasha. I know where you’ve been because that’s where I’ve been. That’s where Michelle has been. And we know what it means to struggle, but we also know what it means to receive the incredible blessings of this country.

So if you still believe in me and you’re willing to stand with me — (applause) — and keep on going, not just today, not just tomorrow, not just next week, not just next month, but for the next 105 days, and then four more years after that — (applause) — then we’ll finish what we started. We will bring this economy all the way back and more. And we’ll remind the world just why it is the United States of America is the greatest nation on Earth. (Applause.)

A coalition of civil rights group has persuaded a Denver, Colo. judge that Obamacare’s preventive care coverage provides a “substantial burden” on a Colorado company’s free exercise of religion.

Judge John Kane, who was appointed by President Jimmy Carter, granted a “preliminary injunction” barring enforcement of the law against the company, pending a full trial.

Newland v. Sebelius was filed in the U.S. District Court of the District of Colorado by Hercules Industries — a private company that manufactures heating and air-conditioning products.

Preliminary injunctions are usually granted when the judge believe the plaintiff has a strong case. The judge recognized that the Obamacare mandate violates the Constitution and the 1993 Religious Freedom Restoration Act, Bowman said.

The Constitution and the law require the government to have a compelling reason for church-related regulation, and to use alternative means wherever possible, he said.

The Obamacare mandate, he added, “could easily be served by the government providing contraceptive themselves … if there was the political will.”

“This principle applies to all of those [religious freedom] cases that have been applied and will be applied.”

“What would that state senator think about the campaign being run right now as president?”

That’s easy — It’s not his fault. The Republicans made him do it.

Just like Jack Ryan made him illegally obtain and disclose Ryan’s confidential sensitive private must-never-see-the-light-of-day except under court order, much less be published in local newspapers and disclosed on local TV news broadcasts and radio talk shows, court sealed divorce records.

90% of the people are really sheeple. The ‘polls’ aren’t going to swing with most information. Celebrity, race, and the media won the 2008 elections; common sense revived when that all died down.

The reason the PR Presidency puts out lies and doublespeak and random stupid phrases is because of the sheeple. It’s psy-ops. Say and do whatever, then after it’s out there, walk it back where only hyper-informed persons will see it.

Open the eyes of the sheeple; let them see the shepherd is a deceiver, dividing to conquer.

I contend there’s a seismic even San Andreas-fault disgust with Obama not being measured in these polls. It will erupt in November, and blow the MSM and pollsters away.

rrpjr on July 27, 2012 at 9:34 PM

Agree 100%!! Privately they tell me this too but they are really afraid of the thought police coming after them!! Obama’s war on America has succeeded in dampening free speech!! Many are truly afraid of this government run by Obama!! Some have told me they have lied to pollsters because they feared blow back from someone if they told the truth!! That creates the underground that will vote as you describe!!